There are just too many damn teams in Major League Baseball. Let's go back to the days when there were only 8 teams in each league. In this theme, we'll keep just 16 of the current MLB teams (8 AL, 8 NL) and have a 5-round dispersal draft for the allocation of players from the other teams.
League Name: Contraction GM Challenge
Salary Cap: $90M
Description: Once 16 owners sign up, we will have a lottery to determine a draft order for team selection. Each owner will select one team from the 2015 season (8 AL and 8 NL teams must be selected).
Once the 16 teams are selected, there will be a 5-round player dispersion draft, where the draft order for each round is based on inverse regular season record. A total of 80 players will be chosen. The draft is untimed but not unlimited time, so please do not abuse this! Only players from the 14 teams not selected are eligible to be taken. AL teams can take NL players and vice-versa. So your 25-man roster will consist of 20 players from your selected team and 5 players from the dispersal draft.
Other Details
DH: AL Only
CAP: 90 mil
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: Only picks and/or drafted players before season
Clones: No
SLL: 40 min to make the playoffs
Ballpark: The ballpark that your team called home
Team Name: Use actual team name or obvious variation
Division Alignment: 4 x 4 (8 AL, 8 NL) Based on East/West as much as possible. Balanced schedule, interleague play.
Multi-team players: Only one occurrence of a player can happen in the league, so for players with multiple teams, only the combined-season "player card" will be eligible and the team that he played for last during the season will get ownership of that player. For example, 2015 Troy Tulowitzki is on the Toronto Blue Jays, not the Colorado Rockies. Conversely, 2015 Jose Reyes is on Colorado, not Toronto, so if the Blue Jays get chosen but the Rockies don't, then Reyes is draft-eligible but Tulowitzki isn't.
Sign up below:
1) donaldjtrump
2) arvidjosef steve9955
3) jesters
4) braveboy73
5) verynice
6) mikepot53565
7) coyote522
8) toddleduc
9) The Taint
10) dlrawson
11) chicagoaaron
12) prep_hoops joshkvt
13) dodgerhatr
14) szczubelek
15) cstrohmier
16) tato526
See page 2 for all MLB standings.
12/9/2015 5:41 PM (edited)